{"id":5574,"date":"2024-01-19T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/what-we-treat\/hlava-a-krk\/rakovina-krcni-mandle\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T07:52:03","slug":"tonsil-cancer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/what-we-treat\/head-and-neck\/tonsil-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonsil Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonsil tumours tend to affect younger patients. The incidence of the disease is increasing rapidly in the Czech Republic, and it is now 3 times higher than 30 years ago. This increase is directly related to the spread of human papillomavirus HPV 16, the presence of which has been confirmed in many patients in recent years*.<\/p>\n

The most common symptoms that bring a patient to the doctor’s office are:<\/h3>\n
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  • pain in the neck and ears,<\/li>\n
  • foreign body feeling,<\/li>\n
  • painful swallowing,<\/li>\n
  • difficulty swallowing,<\/li>\n
  • bad breath,<\/li>\n
  • bleeding from the oral cavity,<\/li>\n
  • swelling in the neck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    The treatment of malignant tumours of the head and neck area, including the tonsils, must be comprehensive and requires a team of doctors. It is governed by the location of the primary tumour, histology, the extent of the disease, and the general condition of the patient.<\/p>\n

    The main treatment modalities for tonsil tumours are surgery and radiotherapy. In early stages, surgery or radiotherapy are indicated as separate treatment modalities. Advanced stages usually require combined treatment (surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    *Human papillomavirus is common in the human population, but only a small group of infected people develop cancer. More than 150 different subtypes are known, but HPV16 is particularly high-risk. A surprising characteristic of HPV positive disease is large nodules, with a relatively small finding of a primary tumour, these patients are often in a clinically advanced state of the disease at the time of diagnosis.<\/h5>\n
    HPV-positive head and neck tumours have a better prognosis compared to HPV-negative tumours and respond better to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The risk of death is reduced by 60-80% in HPV positive tumours compared to HPV negative tumours.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tonsil tumours tend to affect younger patients. The incidence of the disease is increasing rapidly in the Czech Republic, and it is now 3 times higher than 30 years ago. This increase is directly related to the spread of human papillomavirus HPV 16, the presence of which has been confirmed in many patients in recent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5567,"menu_order":308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-service-detail-with-anchor-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5574\/revisions\/7087"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptc.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}